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David
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 Posted: Sat Oct 19, 2013 12:37 am Post subject: Recesky DIY TLR for $6 |
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David wrote:
What... the... heck... How does a $6 build-at-home camera take photos like this? Plastic lens. PLASTIC LENS!
1-3: Kodak Gold 100; 4: Foma 100 (I'm not going to do a separate thread for one image.)
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The last image shows very nice sharpness and contrast. The first three show surprisingly warm color, incredible detail, and nice tonality (if being a bit dark.) In all, I'm stunned by what this $6 camera could do. Especially since the focusing screen was clear glass, so I had to 'grind' it myself on 200 grit sandpaper. So it's really dark, but the edges on it from the sandpaper do give nice focus points.
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RSalles
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RSalles wrote:
Dave,
What camera is it?
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philslizzy
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philslizzy wrote:
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Dave,
What camera is it?
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I think its this one, Uses 35mm film. Looks like fun takes photography tight back to its basics.
I would be interested how this camera would perform in Attila's hands.
 
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David
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David wrote:
That's the one, Phil. I'm still kinda in shock about it. And you can modify it, too. I haven't done this, but by tightening the shutter too much, it fires on bulb. Remove the aperture plate and it should be super shallow in terms of DoF.
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ForenSeil
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Location: Kiel, Germany.
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ForenSeil wrote:
I also had this toy. Very inconsistent shutter times my copy had unfortuenately, only 1/10 of its photos came out usable, a few massivly overexposed, other negs were extremly thin even if all where under the same conditions. Of course it's lens is very soft, heavy vignetting, no exposure counter, only one inconsistent shutter time, all very unreliable.... but it's sometimes able to make pictures and funny to use this kids toy 
Here's the plastic singlet on NEX
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!Karen
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!Karen wrote:
Artsy photograph, i like it
Seems fun building a camera. Lomography has one of those diy camera's as well I believe.
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